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Advice for Configuration of readyNas ultra2
Hi, I'm kind of newbies in Nas world and I have bougth a ready nas ultra + 3Tb hard drive (soon delivered). I played a little bit with the readynas and 1Tb drive and I will switch to 3Tb as soon ...
It would not be easy to resize the RAID volumes with your approach.
Also, RAID-1 requires 2 drives - so I am confused about the "used mainly with a single disk of 3 TB" and "raid 1 with 500 GB".
The simplest approaches are to
(a) Go with 2x3TB drives, and create a single mirrored volume.
(b) Go with FlexRaid, and create two independent volumes (one on each disk).
In the second approach, you could backup your critical shares daily from one volume to the other - not the same as RAID-1 of course, but perhaps good enough. Though you should also back these shares up to a different device.
You can use FlexRAID to create multiple volumes on one drive. Also, if you use flexraid with a 500 GB drive and a 3 TB drive, you could set up a 500 GB RAID-1 and and 2.5 TB RAID-0. Changing the size of those volumes would (I think) require deleting them and restoring them from backup.
Also, RAID-1 requires 2 drives - so I am confused about the "used mainly with a single disk of 3 TB" and "raid 1 with 500 GB".
The simplest approaches are to
(a) Go with 2x3TB drives, and create a single mirrored volume.
(b) Go with FlexRaid, and create two independent volumes (one on each disk).
In the second approach, you could backup your critical shares daily from one volume to the other - not the same as RAID-1 of course, but perhaps good enough. Though you should also back these shares up to a different device.
You can use FlexRAID to create multiple volumes on one drive. Also, if you use flexraid with a 500 GB drive and a 3 TB drive, you could set up a 500 GB RAID-1 and and 2.5 TB RAID-0. Changing the size of those volumes would (I think) require deleting them and restoring them from backup.
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